Re: SplayTime

[Chip Seraphine]

I think the idea of SplayTime is to decrease the load on the fileserver, 
really.  It's not a matter of the size of the script so much as a matter 
of how much server I/O it may generate as it requests files to be copied 
or whatever.

But the main reason you probably don't really want to do this is that the 
update.conf runs immediately before the cfagent.conf; putting a SplayTime 
in there will have the effect of putting a pause in between the two.  You 
probably ought to think of the two files as being a single large job, and 
set the splay time appropriately.  In other words, if you want to spread 
the updates over a couple minutes and the main config over a couple more, 
just set the whole splay to four minutes.

Hope that makes sense,

Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> cfengine 2.0.7p3
>
> I have a question about this variable. I want it to use twice one for
> the update.conf and then in cfagent.conf (daily run). But that is not
> possible, why? My thought is that i want to spread the load on the
> server when update.conf is run. It is a sinple cfengine script and it 
> runs fast, so a low SplayTime value. Now when i run the daily config a
> lot of files are checked so i want to use a different SplayTime value.
> Does this make sense?